St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-24
CAPTURED AT TOWER.
James Egan, the Desperate, in
Limbo.


Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 23.-James
Egan. alias James SOmers, the desper-
ado, diye-keeper. illicit seller of whisky,
and wanted in various states for various
crimes, was captured by Deputy Sheriff
Al Free this morning at Tower, and
lodged in the county Jail at this place
for safe keeping. Egan is five feet nine
inches, about thirty-fiye years of age,
with hard ''devil may care" look. Egan
sets himself up for ''holy terror"
and has already once stood off the
county authorities successfully, but this
time he had determined, reSOlute man
to deal with, and is now safe behind
the bars. The town of Ely and the sur
rounding country has for some time
been partially run by this ruffian, who
openly defied arrest, swearing that it
would cost man his life to arrest him.
So sure was he of immunity that he
attempted few days ago to shoot an
explorer named Palmer who refused
to associate with him. He came up be-
you. I'll kill you any way" put the piS-
tol to his head and fired. Palmer luckily
ducked his head and escaped with bad
scalp wound. He fell to the ground,
and Egan thinking that he had been sue
cessful in killing him walked off, cOolly
reloading his revolver. He robbed two
men not long ago at the point
of pistol, of canoe and
all their camp equipments, and repeat
edly sent verbal messages to Deputy
Sheriff Free, daring him to arrest him.
But his time came at last. AS soon as
Mr.. Palmer recovered sufficiently ha
70 nd tod tI,n,.r NIL
his WOuld-be-murderer should appear.
In due time he came there. and. Of
course, put up at Dave Kelly's dive.
Free went there and waited for his man
who never expected for one moment
that even complaint had been
laid against him, much less that
he would be arrested. The deputy
waited near the door of the bar room,
and as soon as Egan put his nose inside
of the door he found himself looking
down a pistol BARREL at the other end of
which was short, dark man who evil
IDENTITY meant business. This desperate
was taken aback, but Mr.. Free had the
drop on him, so there was nothing for
clicked about his villainous wrists and
in the twinkle of an eye he was in the
lookup. To-day he was brought before
Judge Williams, OF Tower, and bound
over to the next term of court in the
sum of $1,000. This is very
important capture as this villain
has for years existed by robbery and
terrorizing other men, and the authori-
ties of Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Northern Michigan. Nebraska and other
places have been looking for him. He
is muscular, wellbuilt fellow. He last
came from Marinette, Wis, ewhere he is
wanted for shooting man. Last sum-
mer he kept the lowest kind of dive
upon the shores of Long Lake. where
he and his fellow pirates held high rev.
elry whenever they could '!dOwn
sucker" He bears very hard charac-
ter, and one which does not seem to
possess a single redeeming feature.
Deputy Sheriff Al Free is to be cOngrat-
ulated in bagging such valuable prize,
and it is pretty certain that the capture
of few more of these dastardly ruffianS
would add much to the prosperity OF
the Vermilion range.